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Im not totally sure either. I think the message is that a lot of countries / groups wanted something to be done about Iran but while they were discussing it Trump just pulled a leroy jenkins on that shit and now they're mad about it.
I find it disgusting that they feel the need to appeal to their importance for economic activity. Safety should be a worthy enough goal to maintain such a lightweight organization. Trump says he wants to bring industry back to America. With moves like this, it's clear the actual intent is to keep workers subservient and expendable.
With fewer than 50 employees and an annual budget of just $14.4 million, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) plays a critical role in driving chemical safet...
Somebody must have an exploit for the platform. Guessing it's Israel because of the messaging from a few weeks ago by various countries' security concerns.
Wonder what the NATO response will be/what it means if Article V isnt automatically invoked. When was the last time a foreign government said they'd launched an attack against the US? Genuine question.
I put Mint Cinnamon on an older laptop just this past weekend and had a lot of fun with it. Are there any migration tips for my main Windows machine? I was thinking of going with Bazzite since it's my gaming box. What about saved game data and whatnot? I was reading about Putty and SSH ing over to the laptop, but I'm not sure what a good strategy is for my desktop.
Originally I planned to switch in October when support for W10 runs out, but it seems my PC made the push for me.
At the start of July some issue with windows that caused my system to freeze and then get stuck on boot when restarted finally bricked my system for a 2nd time this year and I was forced to reinstall the OS again. So, instead of wasting another 4 months on dealing with all the crap windows has been throwing my way lately, I just jumped ship to mint.
3 weeks in and, so far so good. Really got around to all the personalization it allows over windows. Learning to run a pc mostly through the terminal has been a step out of the comfort zone, but an enjoyable one tbh
I have been putting up with the ads, spyware, and lack of control for years: this was the last straw for me. Couldn't upgrade to Win11 and now they're ending support for Win10?
Just wiped my SSD and booted Linux Mint. I'll miss certain games and Paint.net (slowly learning GIMP) but I can't put up with this shit anymore.
I have used linux in a past job (I did not set it up), so im not a total noob with linux. But I am far from an expert. I bought a tablet that had a flavor of linux on it and found myself woefully unprepared trying to navigate the tablet. I was planning to use it for DnD for pdf reading, but it apparently wasn't capable of that bcz it was a rather custom OS. With windows 10 support being dropped by Microsoft in the next few months, I want to transition my desktop to Linux, and I thought I'd get a headstart on that. I have a windows 11 laptop (and I hate it), but im kinda stuck with it for now. So, in the spirit of I am a noob who isn't quite a noob, what do ya'll recommend? p.s. I used Ubuntu for a bit way way back in high school
Desktop environment will be the most impactful for you. I recommend picking a distro with KDE Plasma, which will feel like the best version of Windows you’ve never seen before.
If you are almost exclusively gaming and don’t want to fiddle much, Bazzite.
If you like to fiddle: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Fedora. If you want more Ubuntu compatibility, Kubuntu.
There are lots of options and it’s hard to go wrong. Bazzite is special in that the system is immutable, so everything needs to be run as a container.
Nobody wants to argue about fucking pronouns except the people insisting on making it into a fucking issue. Nobody wants to argue it's okay to fuck who they want except the fuckheads saying you can't fuck who you want because I disagree.
There will be enough people asking this as a joke, but I am very serious. Is it actually time to move on from X11 for everyone?
I have been using linux since a couple months after Linus put the first bits of code on an ftp. I have been mainlining it since 1999 and it has been my entire career since 2009.
I have been through all the iterations. The svsV's, the runits, the systemd's. And while I don't enjoy a ton of change I did get over it for all of these and still feel 'at home'.
But for wayland? I have never even tried. I just see everyone saying you are fucked if you have X or Y hardware, or if you require A or B legacy workflows.
Is NOW really the time for old codgers to give it a serious go?
My friends and I are hosting a Linux and FOSS group chat to have some casual chat, help, and anything related to the topic really. We chose this platform to chat on to keep a privacy preserving way to engage with one another.
Alright. Haha, I filter out Big Tech and far-right shit on Mastodon 😛 It's probably because of that. And if some far-right person starts to chat/talk to me, I often ignore him/her.
I really have no idea why everyone is bashing Signal so much here. None of the concerns listed seem even slightly technical.
The only problem I have with signal is that it is:
A. Centralized (which isn't explicitly a privacy concern, but a control concern in-line with linux and foss)
B. Requires a phone number to register.
It is quite private in spite of that, and goes to great lengths to achieve that privacy. It is what I see people in the security community consistently suggest.
However, if this is a public group, are we to really be that concerned about many of the considerations Signal tries to tackle? Worst case scenario a bad actor simply enters the chat and backs everything up.
It seems like our threat model is moreso in the way of general surveillance economy concerns (and perhaps to have a slightly less public entry).
In this case, point A and B become even more glaring! Why not something like an E2E encrypted Matrix chat?
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You do realise Iran is direclty supplying weapons to Russia that are used against Ukraine. Did you really expect for Ukraine to side with Iran here? It seems a lot of people are forgetting what a shitty country Iran actually is ...
Israel also supplied Drones to Russia after the Crimea invasion, didn't join sanctions and as reported by an Ukrainian official demanded Ukraine to surrender behind closed doors.
Now with the US getting itself dragged into another Iraq style war by Israel, Ukraine could suffer in two major ways:
Western military aid will be cut short in favor of Israel and US
The rising energy prices will lead to Russia's strained warchest to replenish and could even lead to EU countries easing sanctions to buy oil and gas from Russia again.
Ukraine is being played by the US and Israel but either plays along because Zelensky is high on Zionism or because Ukraine by now is owned by the US and he has to say everything Trump wants him to say. Either way this is bad for the Ukrainian people and it is delusional to think that anyone in the West would feel emboldened now to bomb Russia.
Israel also supplied Drones to Russia after the Crimea invasion, didn't join sanctions and as reported by an Ukrainian official demanded Ukraine to surrender behind closed doors.
This is clear whataboutism. Iran and Israel can both be bad. Ukraine wants max pressure on the Russian war machine. So they cheer the weakening of a Russian military supplier. They also probably figure that if America is itching to fight again, it might as well help them out. They also probably sense the news cycle further shifting away from Ukraine and are trying to bring themselves into the conversation.
This right here is why I've always laughed at the concept of "energy independence" through domestic oil extraction. The US produces much more oil than it uses. The oil coming out of the straight of Hormuz is not coming to the US. However, oil is a global commodity and the price goes up or down for everyone.
No, but the gas you out in your car came from oil imported from Canada. The best way to ensure energy independence is installing solar and wind farms across the US, but the people that scream the loudest about oil prices are against that too
Solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, even natural gas would all be independent from international conflicts. Obviously, if your goal is an energy transition, pivoting into fossil fuels is brain dead, but that seems like what we're doing.
Ultimately, it's not the technology that injures people, it's the person operating it. An increase in numbers cycling means an increase in idiots cycling. I'm not sure there's much that can be done about this, to be honest. I'm not sure that legislation is the answer. It's not like traffic laws have eradicated car accidents or dangerous driving. Perhaps we should be at least grateful that idiots only have the power of an e-bike at their disposal and not a car.
As an aside, why is there so much clamour for speed limiters in e-bikes, but not in cars? I can't think of a good reason why car speeds aren't mechanically capped.
I can't think of a good reason why car speeds aren't mechanically capped.
There are countries that limit the top speed of cars. Japanese motorcycles used to be limited (still are?). Unfortunately, these limits are many times faster than would be needed to obliterate a pedestrian. I think cars should include some kind of dynamic governor that limits speed in certain areas. City governments could put out maps of the city center which is capped at 30km/h for example. The car's gps would know it's in that region and reduce the cars acceleration in that region. This would drastically cut down pedestrian deaths but there's no political will behind directly intruding on people driving. Plus it would get messy with edge cases. What happens if a highway goes through downtown and my car thinks I'm a block over for a second while I'm going highway speeds?
Well, I agree with you about the dynamic governor. And I think that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. Not only could it potentially reduce fatal accidents, but it also discourages people from driving in urban areas. The case you mentioned with the highway, well, I think a highway has no business being anywhere near where people have to be. Besides, the I'm sure the tech exists when it comes to guiding missiles or some other military atrocity, why can't we use tech to actually protect people for a change?
The lack of will is disappointing, but not surprising at all.
I agree that highways have no business being close to city centers. However, the edge case I described could cause a pileup. That sort of disregard would be gross negligence of something that's supposed to improve safety. The first time that happened, there would be such intense backlash and rollback that the idea would be shelved forever.
I've seen the post about Hyprland Premium go a bit viral and people don't seem to understand fully what we're doing.
There is a reason no pages link to the account. subdomain, because it's a work in progress, after all. That's why wording is a bit lacking, that's why registrations are closed.
Anyways, here are some key takeaways:
Yes, it's real
It's the official website. I did not get hacked.
Hyprland is not going closed source
It says that in the first sentence on the page. No paid features, beta branches, etc. We continue development as always.
Why money
I need something to eat too. Once I end university, if I can't make this my full-time job, I will have to severely decrease my contributions in favor of a real job. If this gets us somewhere, it will be only with benefits to you, the users. If I get enough money to hire another guy to help me work on Hyprland full time, I will.
Forums:
Already on forum.hypr.land. To log in, you need a Hyprland Account, that's why we haven't "fully" launched them yet.
"Premium" Forums:
Additional categories on the same forum for premium subscribers - these include premium support (where you get answers from me instead of the community at large), Q&A with me, and some banter chats.
Desktop Experience:
Free desktop experience: Dotfiles provided by us, with one-click installs and updates.
Premium desktop experience: Same as above, but with more customization options. (dotfile customizations, e.g. "bar on what side", "what button where", etc, not Hyprland features)
"Further premium services":
A general catch-all clause if any premium services come out in the future, they will most likely just be a part of the premium subscription. This might be dotfile sync, or other ideas. We don't know yet, that's why we didn't say.
Free desktop experience: Dotfiles provided by us, with one-click installs and updates.
Premium desktop experience: Same as above, but with more customization options. (dotfile customizations, e.g. “bar on what side”, “what button where”, etc, not Hyprland features)
That's actually on point for a university student. Probably young. Doesn't have experience running a business. I wouldn't be surprised if they struggle to get this off the ground without making fierce critics out of hyprland users.
I'd guess the vague idea is about something like a graphical configuration ui (web or local) and maybe even personal support writing dotfiles for you. I have my doubts that will generate enough revenue, but good luck.
For me the most effective tip has been, don't spend time in bed/bedroom other than for sleeping, that way your body will take the cue from your surroundings and recognize it's sleep time.
It's interesting how different people are. For me if I don't spend time reading or gaming or browsing stuff in a place, I just won't go there to sleep either - I ended up sleeping on the sofa for over five years because of it. But I am autistic so that messes with stuff like this
Everyone with extra outdoor space to spare, call your local beekeepers and see if they will put a colony on your property. It helps the local plants and wildlife, and they'll do all the work in maintaining them. They just need volunteers to offer up space.
Also, talk to your local government about reducing the types of pesticides available for non-commercial purposes.
Honeybees generally stay away from human activity. If you have a lot of flowers in your area, and big open spaces, they'll just stick to the flowers and away from your house. They're also unlikely to sting you unless you go to the hive and start messing with it and they don't recognize you.
La nostra protesta a Venezia contro Jeff Bezos. Un gigantesco striscione è apparso in Piazza San Marco per contestare il business inquinante del CEO di Amazon.
TL;DR: Venice exists in its current form (canal city on an ever sinking atoll) not because of climate change, and not because of some fishing village put their backs into it for hundreds of years, but because of money. LOTS, and lots of money from a shipping/trade boom a very long time ago.
The fact that Bezos built his obscene wealth on shipping and international commerce, just makes this even more appropriate in a gross kind of way. Like he's deliberately connecting himself to Venice's history, and everything that implies.
Talk about a gross oversimplification. Venice grew out of mosquito infested lagoon due to necessity. The Venetian people were driven into the lagoon multiple times over centuries as a means of protection from Germanic invasions in the 7th century. They capitalized on shipping and trade just like any other population would do and used those riches to make their citizens lives better. What would you have expected them to do? Turn away from the money spice trading and Mediterranean shipping traffic brought them because it would make them too rich? Because again, they were a people used to fleeing into a mosquito infested lagoon when their farming population was invaded by multiple armies.
For that reason, comparing an entire cultural population like Venice to a singular person is a false equivalency. Bezos hasn't used his shipping fortune to enrich anyone but himself, but at least Venetian royalty built buildings and public spaces for their population.
"We're looking at doing something where in the case of good, reputable farmers, they can take responsibility for the people that they hire, and let them have responsibility, because we can't put the farms out of business, and at the same time, we don't want to hurt people that aren't criminals," Trump told reporters.
Yep. Keep them as slaves. Or very close to it. It's so obvious. Due to everything that's happening the immigrants will be in fear and desperation. They'll work for below minimum wage in horrid conditions and be too afraid to do anything about it.
I mean, I only worked one season with migrant laborers, so you may have more experience...
But a lot just aren't gonna come here this season. They don't need us, at least not as much as we need them. If anything I'd expect all this shit to drive up their wages.
Quick edit:
There's a misconception farm work is "unskilled", it's not. So the vets stay out and we get less experienced workers who do the job slower, and for a higher hourly to deal with the risk and uncertainty.
So both per hour wages and amount of hours needed are gonna go up.
Shits still going to become substantially more expensive.
Trump privately approved plans for an assault on Iran US President Donald Trump informed senior officials late on Tuesday that he had approved plans for an attack on Iran
A lot of games are going to work without you having to do anything and some will need some tinkering. In that case, protondb.com/ will be your best friend, telling you exactly what you need to do to get things running.
That being said, some games simply can't be run under Linux. They might work in the future as compatibility improves but some won't. If it's an issue for you, you might want to dual boot windows as a workaround.
Good thing about the distro he chose is that pretty much every game will run fine. I love bazzite. Two months on it now and I haven’t even had to open the terminal or download a single driver. It’s definitely been my go to recommendation for anyone looking to leave windows and build a gaming PC.
I’ve seen some folks complain about it size, but it’s like 8 or 9gb. Small price to pay if you ask me for how turnkey it is. Besides storage is cheap now.
I’ve seen some folks complain about its size, but it’s like 8 or 9gb. Small price to pay if you ask me for how turnkey it is. Besides storage is cheap now.
Especially when you consider Windows is like 20-30GB
Yeah I think people are just kind of used to how small some distros be and eventually it stops being a game of how much space can I save and more like dogma lol.
I mean even if you’ve got some tiny machine with only 128gb you’re still talking less than 10% of the machine vs. upwards of 25%
Kat Cammack recounts emergency room ordeal but claims ‘fearmongering’ by Democrats and pro-choice activists sowing confusion among medical professionals
Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack has revealed that she almost died last year as a result of her state’s six-week abortion ban, which left hospital staff reluctant to treat her ectopic pregnancy for fear of criminal prosecution.
Cammack was only five weeks pregnant at the time, the embryo had no heartbeat and her own safety was in jeopardy, but nevertheless the congresswoman found herself forced to pull up the letter of the law on her phone to argue the case and even put in a call to Governor Ron DeSantis, without being able to reach him, before staff relented and came to her aid.
But surprisingly, given her ordeal, the representative does not feel the law itself is at fault and instead blames Democrats for scaring medical professionals into confusion over their responsibilities.
Just quoting the readme so there's no misinterpretation:
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Anybody who's treating others nicely is welcomed. It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome.
So, you comdemn all the project because its founder just happened to have an opinion you don't like about a topic completely disconnected from the software world ?
The anti DEI stuff is in the project readme and the anti vax bullshit was on the lkml. So I think the auther can not keep his 'opinions' and politics out of his projects. If he uses his software work to promote potentially dangerous believes, I don't think the project should be supported or promoted
So far, his alleged opinions are more spread out by his detractors than by himself. Imo, this project brings more diversity of choice in the foss world, and that's a good thing. I have nothing against wayland, but a de facto monopoly is never desirable. Tbh, I'm far more concerned by the hostility to this fork.
His opinion is literally on the frontpage of his project on github, there is nothing 'alleged' about it. I don't think the project can be separated from his opinions
The readme seems to contradict itself, the second part of Leny's quote looks like real DEI. Hence we can assume that the first DEI entrance is dei-as-implemented-by-xorg-team, which he obviously doesn't like. Simple assumption, the best would be to ask him.
This isn't coherent, and even if it was, the burden of stance interpretability is context-dependent.
He is the one with the politically charged README that reads plainly like the thoughtless garbage MAGA types in America put out. I mean cmon man, "[...] we'll make X great again"?
Also your shallow and brainless dismissal of all this criticism coming from his "detractors" (and who would not become a "detractor", after actually investigating his terrible dribble?) is defeated easily by just reading the actual words he said.
As in, for instance, the original source of his garbage antivax posturing that he posted in the linux kernel mailing list: lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/ke… .
These are not alleged opinions, he's just full of shit.
And this isn't even mentioning the fact that Xorg is going to be dead, should be dead, and will continue to die. And good riddance, too! Terrible and borderline unmaintainable.
The argument that choice diversity is good inherently is stupid, too. Wayland is a god damned protocol! There is no reason to have lots of diversity there! It has no tangible benefit.
There are already many different compositors that implement the Wayland protocol, and there are also many 3rd party extensions! Can you think of a single, material benefit to simply having different basic desktop protocols?
Also your shallow and brainless dismissal of all this criticism coming from his “detractors” (and who would not become a > “detractor”, after actually investigating his terrible dribble?) is defeated easily by just reading the actual words he said.
I was merely pointing out that these opinions, whatever they really are, have more publicity from people criticizing the founder. The best from your point of view would be not to speak about it.
And this isn’t even mentioning the fact that Xorg is going to be dead, should be dead, and will continue to die. And good riddance, too! Terrible and borderline unmaintainable.
If it were true, all this hatred against the project would be pointless.
The argument that choice diversity is good inherently is stupid, too. Wayland is a god damned protocol! There is no reason > to have lots of diversity there! It has no tangible benefit.
Free software is all about freedom, and diversity means freedom of choice. If you don't agree with that, you miss the all point.
I was merely pointing out that these opinions, whatever they really are, have more publicity from people criticizing the founder.
Why yes, friend, I will just conveniently pretend that you bringing that up is completely outside the context of whether or not to seriously consider the criticism.
And if you are trying to make a point of whether or not the ideology is seriously impacting the project, you need-only take a casual walk through the issue list, and find (among other evidence) that a suggestion to move to codeberg was criticized for... "DEI". Wow. How technically-focused.
The best from your point of view would be not to speak about it.
You are getting more and more incoherent the more of these replies you churn out. What, precisely from my point of view (which I guess apparently you know very well? the irony...) here implies that "not talking about it" is the best choice? That's absurd.
I find it very important to understand the motivations, technical and ideological, behind a project.
If it were true, all this hatred against the project would be pointless.
I don't spend any effort talking about in any other respect than telling people that they should likely disregard if for both technical reasons (it cuts out Xwayland, his commits frequently lead to very blatant regressions that are nontrivial, etc.) and ideological (his terrible, awful politics and motivations for making the project, to begin with!)
The reason I replied to your comment is mostly out of idle curiosity and a deepseated longing for genuineness and critical thinking of other people that I have not yet managed to kill (despite its impracticality in the modern age).
Free software is all about freedom, and diversity means freedom of choice. If you don’t agree with that, you miss the all point.
This is all such a massive and disheartening reduction of what software freedom is. I hope that you eventually manage to think less shallowly about this.
Tell me, do you have any particular, material distinction you are making by making a choice between desktop protocols? The desktop protocol is a purely technical thing, and I have not heard a single peep out of you in regards to specifics.
To elaborate, in Xorg, it is a very monolithic beast. It is very convoluted in its purview and carries a lot of preset implementation of its various facets. It contains an entire networking stack for deciding how to communicate windows over a network.
It is significantly less flexible and modular than Wayland, because in Wayland basically everything of significance is decided by the compositor.
This, ironically to your point, actually gives you more choice and freedom in how things work (this is also why tiling window managers love wayland to death, it's pretty easy to just build upon the basic wlroots implementation!). So I have to ask you, frankly, what in the fuck do you think you're actually saying right now?
The issue, in this way, is that you only seem to care about software freedom in the sense of the abstract concept rather than the reality. Which is impractical, and arguably antithetical to the very process of trying to foster software freedom to begin with. As evident by literally everything to do with this situation. My lord.
Found the useful idiot. You're willfully ignoring the racist dogwhistles. That either makes you a supporter or a fellow traveler. Either way, you're complicit and not innocent.
You're all wrong, it's only that you seem to fear a readme almost no user will ever read. Don't worry, it'll be fine. If this file were the only issue with this world, we'd live in a paradise.
I have used dd a few times without destroying my disk, here is my simple recommendation to stay safe:
DON'T TYPE THE COMMAND DIRECTLY INTO THE TERMINAL!
What I mean is that you should open a text editor, type the dd command you want to run in the editor, let it sit for 5 min, go back to the text editor, find the OF path, doublecheck and verify that it is safe.
Correct misstakes, wait another 5 min and do the check again.
Once you are confident that the command is accurate, copy paste it into a terminal and run it.
Once, while typing a dd command, I realised I was sleepy. I deferred until next day.
Usually I keep partitionmanager open alongside, to cross-check my device selection. Unlike having to use other CLI tools to determine if I have it right, I get some handy icons (like the USB drive symbol). Still, make sure to check the contents just in case it got bugged and set the icon to the wrong type of drive.
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